Madeleine L'Engle, The YA Author For The Oddball In Everyone

Madeleine L’Engle entered the world at the tail end of November, on this very day in 1918, so it makes sense that the book she’s most beloved for, A Wrinkle in Time, begins with a classically chilly scene: a dark and stormy night. Awkward middle-schooler Meg Murry, her precocious little brother Charles Wallace, and their beautiful scientist mother have gathered by chance in the warm kitchen to take comfort during the storm. Their relatively normal, and popular, twin brothers Sandy and Dennis...